Happy November Julie Marie ~ we have some really pretty squirrels ... black, grey, even reddish. We have a lovely squirrel that has been at our suet basket lately that's black with a reddish tail ~ gorgeous ♥

"Artists feel what they're carrying and feel it vividly. In order to make their art pulse, they must find their edges and soften there. Art {like love} was never about safety. To love an artist is to fall into a sea of deep, soulful, courageous, wild living" ~Victoria Erickson~

artists & musicians

"All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times" ~Dickey Betts~

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* I Believe*

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I have arrived. I am Home in the here in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell. ~Thich Nhat Hanh~

Home is the nicest word there is ♥~Laura Ingalls Wilder~

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we're all just walking each other home ~Ram Dass~

you are ...

you are my ground and you are my rainbow. you are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy. you are the start of my journeys and always my destination. you are my HOME ~ the place to which i always return. ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie~

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My "Art Saves" story here...

♥ When Women Were Birds ♥

"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten. That the world is meant to be celebrated" ~Terry Tempest Williams~

Finding beauty in Everyday life ♥

~for the sparrows~

I would daily throw out crumbs for the sparrows in the neighbourhood. I noticed tht one sparrow was injured, so that it had difficulty getting about. But I was interested to discover that the other sparrows, apparenty by mutual agreement, would leave the crumbs which lay nearest their crippled comrade, so that he could get his share, undisturbed. ~Dr. Albert Schweitzer~

Gather what you love ...

Our lives are spent gathering what we love ... we call that place hOMe ♥

Rain ...

Who loves the rain and loves his home and looks on life with quiet eyes ~Frances Shaw~

~Sparrows Garden~

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban~

Once Upon A Nest ...

This is the place that I love the best, a little brown house like a ground ~ birds nest, hid among grasses, and vines, and trees, summer retreat of the birds and bees ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~

Sparrow Sentiments ...

I once had a Sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau~

Eyes of Wonder

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary ~Pablo Picasso~

About Me

Little observations from a girl who
loves Home ♥ Where I write about the everyday things ~ the lovely-ness of daily-ness, creating in Sparrow Studio,time spent in the garden, garage sale finds, recipes, walks, favourite quotes ... all the little things that make life lovely ♥

Thank You ...

Established September 28, 2006

HOME is oneness, HOME is my original NATURE. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become. ~Tony Parsons~

If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree ~W.B.Yeats~

You've Got Mail ...

Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate each & every one of your lovely comments ♥

A house is a homewhen it shelters the bodyand comforts the soul~Phillip Moffitt~

I suppose I am a Sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. ~Gladys Taber~

Our house was not unsentient matter - it had a heart and a soul, and eyes to see with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benedictions. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out in eloquent welcome - and we could not enter it unmoved. ~Samuel Clemens~